Biography

Philip S. Schoenfeld, MD, MSEd, MSc (Epi), is currently Chief (Emeritus) of the Gastroenterology Section at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan and Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based GI: An ACG Publication. Dr. Schoenfeld completed his BA degree, his MD degree, and his MSc in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His education was funded by a US Navy Health Professions Scholarship and a U. Pennsylvania School of Medicine Scholarship in Medical Education. After graduation, he entered active duty in the US Navy and completed his internal medicine residency at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, followed by gastroenterology fellowship at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After completing his gastroenterology fellowship, Dr. Schoenfeld was approved for temporary duty at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, where he completed a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Schoenfeld served in the US Navy Medical Corps from 1989 through 2000, and his duties included serving as the staff gastroenterologist on the USNS Comfort, which is a US Navy hospital ship, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, and Director of Gastrointestinal Research. During this time, his preliminary research about the efficacy of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening was funded by junior faculty development awards from the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He separated from the US Navy in 2000 with the rank of Commander. From 2000-2016, he served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and practiced in the Specialized Functional Bowel Disorder Group. While at UM, Dr. Schoenfeld designed and served as Principal Investigator/Director of their T32-funded Training Program in Gastrointestinal Epidemiology. His research on CRC screening was continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Health Administration as principal investigator of K23, K24, R21, and VA Merit Awards from 2001-15. He has served on multiple NIH Study Sections, VA Scientific Merit Review Boards as well as the GI Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Technical Expert Panel on Colonoscopy Outcome Measure Development. Dr. Schoenfeld’s leadership positions include Chair-UM Internal Medicine Department Promotions Committee, Chair-Education Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), Member-AGA Governing Board, Chair-Clinical Practice Section of AGA Council, and Course Director of the AGA Spring Postgraduate Course at Digestive Disease Week and the AGA Postgraduate Course at the World Congress of Gastroenterology. Dr. Schoenfeld has published over 250 original research studies, editorials, book chapters, commentaries, and abstracts. He has been the lead author or senior author of original research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Gastroenterology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He has applied his MSc in Clinical Epidemiology to the development of evidence-based guidelines and has co-authored the American College of Gastroenterology guidelines on irritable bowel syndrome (ACG), chronic constipation (ACG), colorectal cancer screening (ACG), and the multi-society (ACG/ASGE) position statement on Quality Indicators in Colonoscopy. Dr. Schoenfeld served as an Associate Editor of Gastroenterology (2003-09), Associate Editor of the American Journal of Gastroenterology (2011-16), and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He has also been invited to give more than 150 lectures at national and international gastroenterology meetings and internal medicine meetings as well as gastroenterology and internal medicine grand rounds at academic medical centers.

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